How To Open Coconuts Without Any Tools

via boingboing, " how to bust open a coconut without expending more energy than the coconut will provide"



Hm, may have to check out some of these other videos.

Alfonso Cuarón's "Ikea":



I guess this is a thing: World Toilet Day. Check out the logo. You may well wonder, is this some sort of elaborate joke site? Apparently not.

A few bonus links via rmd:

Related to the Gravity spoof: animated GIF of a floppy being ejected in zero-G

Airplane evacuation testing: "In order to meet US Federal Aviation ( Read more... )

Drowning Doesn't Look Like Drowning: "In many child drownings, adults are nearby but have no idea the victim is dying. Here’s what to look for."

[...] it does not look like most people expect. There is very little splashing, no waving, and no yelling or calls for help of any kind. To get an idea of just how quiet and undramatic from the surface ( Read more... )

By way of omgblog (voiceover in Japanese, but you really only need the visual):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMFNy-_gQR0

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My favorite aspects of this are the cartoon-style lead-in drawing, and the lace doilies on the headrests. I don't know how helpful this would be to ( Read more... )

http://graphjam.memebase.com/2011/10/28/knowledge-is-power/


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If you desperately need to hydrate yourself, and the only source of water around is one that would make you vomit, then...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TtIG4TuVnvg

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I hope never to find myself in a situation where this knowledge becomes useful.

via boingboing, Can I still write off a child as a deduction if they've been kidnapped?

According to the IRS website, the answer is "yes," if two conditions are met ( Read more... )